There was a miniseries about OJ Simpson and the trial and everything. They cast Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson. OJ Simpson has a square jaw, broad shoulders, tall athletic. CGJr is small, round, narrow, high pitched, etc. CGJr doesn't even look like he could be OJ's little brother. No idea how he got that part.
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Their physical appearance is the least important aspect of their performance. It's up to the audience to suspend disbelief, or else we end up getting people covered in so much prosthetic that they can't emote.
Well whatever was the most important part was also bad. He didn't need to look just like OJ. But part of OJ is this enormous cocky presence that CGJr just can't have.
Anything involving Pat Hingle.
Going a bit off topic into movie, but he simply isn't Jim Gordon in the Batman films. Straight up. Does not fit in any way. I don't look at him and see Gordon. I see Hingle. And I don't like Hingle.
That stems morstly from his Murder She Wrote appearances, where I always find him to be the weak link in the guest cast. (To somewhat bring it back on topic).
Contrast that to i.e. J Jonah Jameson in the Tobie McGuire Spider Man movies. I was absolutely floored to see how they managed to get somebody who fit they look, attitude and mannerisms of what was pretty much a relatively low-screen-time side-character.
Actually in general I'd say the casting choices for the first two movies contributed very strongly to their success. So many of them just fit.
The show runner for Mad Men cast his own son as 'Glen', and that kid was a terrible actor (he's an adult now obvs, so I consider his performance fair game for criticism).
Why wouldn't a kid's performance be fair to criticize? It's not like we're harassing them on social media.
It's usually best to given 'em the benefit of the doubt, as a bad performance by a child actor is often more due to the director than the kid.
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